The analog portion of the signal is becoming smaller and smaller as more and more digital signal processors (DSP) and microcontrollers are bringing their computational and timing strengths to analog ...

The distinction between analog and digital signals is very simple, but it can still be a challenge to wrap one's mind around the concepts that define the two systems. Just when you think you've got it ...

A great many industrial sensors — flow, level, temperature, pressure, pH, and the list goes on — produce a 4-20 mA output, but today's factories increasingly need digital inputs via standard field ...

Functionality of ADC/DACs, their performance characteristics, and how they have been improved. Advantages, disadvantages, and applications of various ADC/DAC architectures. How ADC/DACs are used in ...

Many noise sources can plague high-speed radio-frequency (RF) analog signal chains, making design considerations that much more challenging. Both megahertz and sub-terahertz sampling-rate converters ...

In previous installments of the AudioFile, we've talked about basic PCM audio, which encodes audio into a series of numbers that a computer can play or manipulate. We've also discussed the process of ...

Clamping and routing high-speed component video (YPbPr) as well as RGB with Sync-on-Green (SoG) is a difficult task. The high-speed, pulse-like nature of these signals requires a fast amplifier and ...

Analog Devices is the second-largest producer of analog chips after Texas Instruments. The company should benefit from its strong market position in high-performance analog, especially in the ...